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To the next generation of spatial data infrastructures.
A new vision to the production, management and distribution of spatial data where cloud technology joins geographical data inventory and query systems, carried out collaboratively with best-known open source projects.
Terradue works to exploit and strengthen best practices in distributed data processing, archiving and discovery for Earth sciences. We focus our activities on the use of web services, GRID and Cloud technologies to support distributed spatial data management, and high performance computing applications in collaborative digital environments. Our emphasis is on the immediate delivery of robust operational systems while keeping a concrete roadmap to build the next generation data processing and storage systems.
A new vision to the production, management and distribution of spatial data where cloud technology joins geographical data inventory and query systems, carried out collaboratively with best-known open source projects.
Terradue works to exploit and strengthen best practices in distributed data processing, archiving and discovery for Earth sciences. We focus our activities on the use of web services, GRID and Cloud technologies to support distributed spatial data management, and high performance computing applications in collaborative digital environments. Our emphasis is on the immediate delivery of robust operational systems while keeping a concrete roadmap to build the next generation data processing and storage systems.
GEO Hazard Supersite using OpenSearch and open linked data navigation
2011-11-10
Terradue is providing the Cloud virtual archive for the biggest ESA SAR data repatriation!
This virtual archive represents ESA contribution to the supersites initiative. This huge amount of SAR data (over than ten thousand images) will then be accessible to science communities dealing with interferometry, landslide and change detection. In the last 20 years, scientists have ordered ERS-1/2 and Envisat data from ESA. Now, they can ship this data to UNAVCO that deals with the upload to the virtual archive. Coupled with state-of-the-art data discovery mechanisms, it has never been easier to discover and access the repatriated SAR data.
The virtual archive is a Cloud solution provided Storage-as-a-Service for storing the data and is coupled with complementary services:
- User authentication and authorization
- Data discovery implementing simple interfaces such as OpenSearch and results in Atom, RDF and KML format
- Data access via common web protocols such as HTTP
On the spotlight:
Radar Mosaics of Antarctica
Radar Mosaics of Antarctica
Using the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) sensor onboard the ENVISAT satellite in its Global Monitoring Mode
products the European Space Agency Grid Processing on-Demand (G-POD) - http://eogrid.esrin.esa.int - creates in a daily basis mosaics of Antarctic Continent.
Working in this mode mode, the ASAR instrument can provide regular information on areas such as Antarctica where, due to constant cloud cover, the use of optical data is unable to support scientific investigations and tracking changes in polar ice.
This is one of several third-party applications and services integrated and supported by Terradue srl. to the European Space Agency using the gridify. The [url]/gridify/%7Cgridify[/url] is an application integration environment developed by Terradue that enables the implementation and configuration of composite services requiring the use of substantial computer and data resources.
This is one of several third-party applications and services integrated and supported by Terradue srl. to the European Space Agency using the gridify. The [url]/gridify/%7Cgridify[/url] is an application integration environment developed by Terradue that enables the implementation and configuration of composite services requiring the use of substantial computer and data resources.
Other News
The Earth Science Data Discovery and Access services developed by Terradue in the context of GENESI-DR and GENESI-DEC projects were demonstrated to the 16th GEOSS Architecture and Data Committee meeting hosted by the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva last May 2nd. The demonstration showed the potential of the system to allow the real time discovery, access, and use (visualize, process on demand…) of space, in situ and other data types located in distributed and federated repositories/catalogues.
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Terradue delivers a new interface to the G-POD that upgrades the web services in accordance to the Web Processing Service (WPS) Specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
With the ESA Earth Observation (EO) Grid Processing-on-Demand (G-POD) environment, the European Space Agency (ESA) offers on-line access to data, together with an attached computing infrastructure to host and run the partner's applications.
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GPOD 2.0 now available for EO scientists
2011-04-15
Since its launch in 2005, G-POD Earth Observation service number kept growing. This drew to a growth on the number of users and data processed on G-POD computing resources. G-POD’s success led to the need of revisiting the Man-Machine-Interface to accommodate effective tools to effectively manage services, tasks and other elements of G-POD. This scenario gave birth to G-POD version 2.0 that will provide a large number of enhancements.
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Terradue was awarded a new contract by the European Space Agency to develop the cloud middleware and infrastructure to support Earth Observation application developed by Scientist on virtual Sandboxes. The project aims to exploit at best the Cloud Computing paradigm for hand-off management of non-critical systems and to develop services allowing Scientists to develop and test their new applications within
a virtual platform; prior to their deployment and exploitation.
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Following increased request of past ASAR products - far beyond their availability at the rolling archives, ESA is making available the ASAR data accumulated over years at our Grid stores.
The ASAR Product selection and download service available in the SSE Portal uses the G-POD infrastructure to provide a Catalogue for selection and download of ASAR products to all CAT-1 Users. The service interfaces with the Grid storage system to provide access to all the ASAR datasets; these products have been systematically copied from the ESA Rolling Archives and available since years.
Although the service is restricted to CAT-1 projects, access is granted to other users pending the acceptance of a license agreement with ESA.
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The extension of G-POD capabilities to UK-PAC is hence highly motivated by the addition into the G-POD data portfolio of the EO product archive maintained at UK-PAC (and mainly its 20 years of multi-mission combined (A)ATSR archive), bringing G-POD computing elements close to this archive with high accessibility bandwidth to offer the possibility to process it to higher level products following the G-POD concept.
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The FP7 mOSAIC project aims to develop an open-source platform that enables applications to negotiate Cloud services as requested by their users. Using the Cloud ontology, applications will be able to specify their service requirements and communicate them to the platform via the innovative API. The platform will implement a multi-agent brokering mechanism that will search for services matching the applications’ request, and possibly compose the requested service if no direct hit is found. The platform will facilitate competition between Cloud providers, who, in return, will be able to reach customers they could not reach before.
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GENESI-DEC - New EC FP7 Project
2010-04-23
GENESI-DEC stands for Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Earth Community and it is the acronym for a new project under the FP7 programme. The project is led by ESA and it started on May 13th 2010. Terradue, together with Telespazio (Italy), DLR (Germany), MARIS - Mariene Informatie Service (Netherlands), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy), IT Innovation Centre / University of Southampton (UK), Join Research Centre of the European Commission (EC) and the Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare (Italy) are part of the consortium.
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The new EU-funded project D4Science-II ('Data infrastructure ecosystem for science') has held its kick-off meeting from 13 to 16 October in Pisa, Italy. It is set to establish 'virtual research environments' that will offer significantly enhanced services to scientists without high development and maintenance costs.
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Terradue was awarded a contract with the European Space Agency to evaluate and develop a Cloud Interface on the Earth Observation Grid. In the frame of the EO G-POD (EO Grid Processing on-Demand) project for Terradue will provide an operational interface to storage and computing resources available on the Amazon Cloud.
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